Tales of Silliness: Retold Timeless Classics

Title

en_US Tales of Silliness: Retold Timeless Classics

en_US Cover-to-Cover Books

Description

en_US Retold by Janice Kuharski

Creator

en_US Kuharski, Janice See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Aspergren, Michael A.

Date

2016-08-26T13:39:02Z

en_US 2016-04

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:39:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US "This 63-page pamphlet offers "The Six Sillies"; "Blockhead Hans"; "Lazy Jack"; and two versions of "The Emperor's New Clothes." The first version is a standard narration of the story, which avoids giving the emperor reasons for wanting the cloth other than "It's just what I need. No one else will have anything like it." This version cleverly gets the second advisor to the emperor to react to the "cloth" by saying "I have no words to describe it." Exuberance over the quality of the cloth leads in this version to the idea of a procession so that more townsfolk can see the cloth. The small boy in this version speaks up after the emperor's speech at the end of the procession. All has gone well until then. The child moved up to the emperor and touched his clothes. As he thought, they were not there. After people listen to the child's revelation, the emperor thinks "I am still the emperor after all. And people must not think that their emperor is a fool." The story is followed by a play of 15 pages that sets the story at the Chinese court."

Identifier

en_US 10863 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91461

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Perfection Learning

en_US Logan, IA

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.K956Tale 1999 See all items with this value

en_US Emperor See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole